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AUSTRALIA: Group Superglued to Parliament Railing Had Called for Detention Centre Closures November 302:06

Question Time in Parliament was suspended on November 30 after several members from an activist group superglued their hands to public gallery rails. Around 2pm, the Speaker of the House suspended the session after members of WACA or Whistleblowers, Activists, and Citizens Alliance – an anti-offshore detention group – began shouting from the gallery. Sky News reported guards used hand- sanitiser to help peel their glued hands off the rail and then escorted them out of the gallery. After the protesters were released, they told media they were demonstrating against the indefinite detainment of refugees on Manus and Christmas Island. The same group disrupted a keynote speech by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on August 17. This video was posted to the WACA Facebook page shortly after the protesters were escorted out by security. Credit: Facebook/Whistleblowers via Storyful, Activists and Citizens Alliance